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Planetary Praxes and Sustainable Universities
What is sustainability in Higher Education (HE)? How should it be represented? Who gets to decide? This thesis offers a response to a particular technocratic and teleological way of thinking about sustainability in Higher Education, which has a series of high profile advocates in theory and policy. …
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The mega-universities and the knowledge media : implications of new technologies for large distance teaching universities
… a basis for reviewing the status of the mega-universities, the ten distance teaching universities that enroll over 100,000 students, and the strategic challenges these institutions face. Although the mega-universities operate at much lower unit costs than conventional universities they face …
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Bystander intervention programming at metropolitan universities.
… at the investing institution. Metropolitan universities typically have student populations of that are older (non-traditional), have lower socioeconomic statuses, have minority backgrounds (Barnett & Phares, 1995); commute, are more likely to be employed (Muhollan, 1995); and, are …
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Universities and festivals : cultural production in context
This thesis critically examines universities as cultural producers within the creative ecologies of their cities, with a focus on the occasions when they produce cultural events for the public. It is a context-specific and empirical study that examines events at three individual universities in …
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The Management of Retrenchment at Public Universities
Public universities are facing a period of declining, or at best, steady state resource levels. Significant adaptive responses will be required in order for institutions to operate within funds that are expected to be available. There is a lack of knowledge in the area of retrenchment management …
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Chinese only children: Experiences in U.S. universities
Chinese international students have become an important student group for U.S. higher education institutions. However, unlike students from other countries, the current generation of Chinese students has grown up under the government’s population control policy, which has resulted in the unique …
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Transportation aspects of Southern African universities. Volume2
… "Transportation Aspects of Southern African Universities", to Deportment of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Cape Town. October 1971.
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Portfolio management and deferred maintenance at universities
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, February 2000.
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Faculty Teaching Goals at Senior Research Universities
… faculty teaching goals at senior research universities and to determine variables which could be used to predict these goals. The eight disciplines used in this study were: accounting, chemistry, computer science, economics, English, math, mechanical engineering, and psychology. The …
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Burnout Among Student Affairs Professionals at Metropolitan Universities
… of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities. Packets containing the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), the Moos Work Environment Scale (WES), and a demographic survey were mailed to 371 senior student affairs administrators at the member institutions, with a completed response rate …
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Ideas and identities: representations of Australian public universities
… and discursive analysis of Australian public universities from a normative perspective, based on a commitment to values of social justice and equality. I argue that ideas of universities in Australia have changed over time; that there were two major shifts of ideas since the liberal ideas that …
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A study of campus planning at selected universities
There is no abstract available for this dissertation.
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Participative decision making (PDM) at South African universities
… decision making (POM) at South African universities. The first aim was to investigate the extent to which these institutions practice participative decision making. The second aim was to establish whether certain managers' characteristics influence the practice of participative decision …
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White Faculty at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
… White faculty at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Specifically, this qualitative study identified influences and barriers in the socialization process of White tenure-line faculty at two HBCUs. Through the participants shared experiences, both positive and negative themes …
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Educational studies in the Scottish Universities : 1870-1970
… St. Andrews became the first English-speaking universities in the world to establish permanent chairs of Education. Half a century later Scotland became the first country in the British Isles to demand university graduation of all male and secondary teachers in the public sector, except for …
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Two Methodologies: How Well Can Universities Predict Retention
Student retention has been a long standing focus in higher education research with one of the earliest work dating back to 1937. Many researchers have proposed factors that affect a student's decision to depart from the university without successfully completing a degree. It is important to not …
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